{"id":2446439,"date":"2019-07-17T10:11:42","date_gmt":"2019-07-17T16:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=857014"},"modified":"2019-07-17T10:11:42","modified_gmt":"2019-07-17T16:11:42","slug":"song-you-need-to-know-john-k-if-we-never-met","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/song-you-need-to-know-john-k-if-we-never-met\/","title":{"rendered":"Song You Need to Know: John.k, \u2018If We Never Met\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/JOHN.k.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>It\u2019s difficult not to appreciate a song that sounds like it was solely made for rooftop parties. John.k evokes exactly that on \u201cIf We Never Met,\u201d a soulful, simple pop tune about the \u201cwhat ifs\u201d in a life without someone special.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf We Never Met\u201d builds upon itself. It starts fairly bare: John.k\u2019s warm voice is merely joined by a simple guitar strum as drum fills begin to fill the layers beneath. The singer wonders what his life would be like without his lover, assuming that the single version of him would be \u201cdrunk, waking up in someone else\u2019s bed\u201d or generally lost. The vision is dark but the reality is much sweeter, making the song more upbeat and breezy \u2014 a perfect summertime sunset soundtrack.<\/p>\n<p>John.k broke through in 2017 with his song \u201cOT\u201d and released his debut EP, <em>If We Never Met<\/em>, this past April.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ATE6kDsmuOE?version=3&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;autohide=2&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/john-k-if-we-never-met-song-857014\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s difficult not to appreciate a song that sounds like it was solely made for rooftop parties. John.k evokes exactly that on \u201cIf We Never Met,\u201d a soulful, simple pop tune about the \u201cwhat ifs\u201d in a life without someone special. \u201cIf We Never Met\u201d builds upon itself. It starts fairly bare: John.k\u2019s warm voice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2446439","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-24 17:04:31","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2446439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2446439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2446439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2446439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}